Cable-grip.



No. 64I,l42. I Patented Jan. 9, I906. W. W. OMALLEY.

CABLE GBI P. A lication filed. Sept. 2, 1898.)

(No Model.)

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" Nirnn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WALTER W. OMALLEY, OF GUFFEY, PENNSYLVANIA.

CABLE-G RIP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 641,142, dated January 9, 1900. Application filed September 2,1898. Serial 110,690,236. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WALTER W. OMALLEY, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Guifey, in the county of Westmoreland and State of Pennsylvania,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cable-Grips and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in cable-grips.

The invention has for its object a form of grip adapted to be connected to the car by means of a draw-bar, the grip being arranged to travel in front of the car, and possesses certain new and novel featuresin its construction and operation, as will be hereinafter fully described in detail, and in the description in detail thereof reference is bad to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and wherein like numerals of reference designate like parts throughout the several views, in which Figure 1 is a vertical side view of the device, showing the manner in which it is intended to operate in connection with the drawbar of the car and the traveling cable. Fig. 2 is a vertical rear view of the same removed from the cable, and Fig. 3 is a top view of the same.

Referring to the drawings, it will be seen that the gripping device consists of a frame having a vertically-operated jaw arranged thereon for engaging the rope. Said frame is of the plate 1, which is turned over at right angles at its upper end. To this end are secured, by the bolts or rivets 2, the plates 3 and 4, leaving an open space 5 at one end, so that they form a draw-head, which is supplied with openings for the coupling-pin 6. A vertical screw 7 is passed down through a threaded opening at the upper end of the frame and has connected at its lower end, by a swiveljoint, the jaw 8. Thisjaw 8 is loosely fitted onto the frame-plate and held in position as illustrated at Figs. 2 and 3, so that the jaw may be guided in its movement when raised War lowered by thescrew The gripping-surface of th1s aw 8 1s provlded with a sermoncular groove 10 where it engages with the rope, and the opposite gripping-jaw is formed at the lower end of the frame-plate by turning the latter over in a semicircular fashion, as shown at 1.

Now for the purpose of illustrating the use of my invention attention is called to Fig. 1, where I show a cable 11 by dotted lines, engaging with the grip-jaws, and also a drawbar 12, connecting the device with the drawhead 13 of a car. In coupling the devicewith a car the coupling-pin 6 is removed and the coupling-link connected. The screw 7 is then turned by a suitable wrench 14 in order to separate the grip-jaws. The cable is then placed between the jaws and the upper jaw lowered by means of the screw, so as to tightly engage the rope.

Should it be required to remove the jaw 8, I have provided openings 15 in the frame, which are of such dimensions as to allow the lugs 9 of the jaw to pass through after withdrawing the pin 16 from the end'of the screw to disconnect it.

This device is particularly adapted for use upon tram-cars.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a cablegrip, the combination, with a plate, one end of which is bent at right angles and perforated and the other end is bent in a curve and the intermediate portion is notched upon its edges, of two perforated plates secured to the top and bottom of the angled portion respectively, and projecting beyond the same at one end and separated from each other in a horizontal plane for the reception of the coupling-link, one set of perforations in the plates and the bent portion being screwthreaded, a screw-th readed shaft through said set of perforations, and a movable jaw swiveled to the lower end of saidshaft, the ends of which are provided with lugs for engaging with the sides of the notched plate above the curved end.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my signature in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. 7

WALTER W. OMALLEY. Witnesses:

J. W. AOKWORTH, E. O. Yos'r. 

